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Founder's Voyage

Founder’s Voyage is a podcast for the ones building in the dark, the ones failing forward, and the ones figuring it out as they go. We bring you unfiltered conversations with founders who’ve faced the highs, and the lows. Just real lessons from the people in the arena. Whether you're scaling a startup or sketching your first idea on a napkin, these are the stories that remind you you're not alone—and the insights that help you move forward. We are an entrepreneurial community united by a shared…

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176 - A Founder's Unconventional Voyage - Arturo Alvarez

Arturo is a Honduras-based full stack software developer with a rich entrepreneurial background that spans theology studies in London, a coffee market venture, and a geo-tracking startup for cattle. After years of searching for his true calling, he found his passion in software development through Lambda School, which he pursued during the COVID-19 pandemic. His diverse experiences across…

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175 - A Founder’s Journey Through Art and Cultural Wisdom - Gema Alava

Gema Alava is an artist, writer, and global speaker whose multidisciplinary work bridges art, culture, and humanity. As the founder of Hexagons Global, she has created a powerful art project spanning paintings, installations, seminars, and cultural education platforms inspired by the wisdom of bees and the potential within every human being. Gema has spent 20 years working in the educational…

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174 - Navigating the Last 10% from Prototype to Production - Ben Thorpe

Ben Thorpe is the Design and Manufacturing Director at Naiad Aqua Systems, a startup revolutionising chemical control for swimming pools through modern connected technology. With nearly two decades of industry experience, he has worked across major companies including SharkNinja and Tech21, developing expertise that spans from early-stage concept development to full-scale manufacturing. Ben made…

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173 - "Build $#!t That Matters" - Marius Ursache

Marius is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience spanning healthcare, fintech, HR tech, B2B software, e-commerce, and consumer apps. As an MIT Teaching Fellow, he helped launch the MIT Bootcamps program and taught there for over a decade. He is also a co-author of the upcoming book Disciplined Entrepreneurship Finance for Founders , bringing a uniquely grounded, practitioner-driven…

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172 - Fostering Teamwork Between People and Machines in Modern Service Businesses - Shoko Taka and Jaime Garcia

Shoko Takahashi and Jaime Garcia is the founder of Incubion Social Robotics Laboratories (Incubion), a company dedicated to bridging the gap between robot providers and service industry users in Japan. With over a decade of experience in the robotics sector, Shoko has spearheaded initiatives including the Robot Data Catalog, a comprehensive database of over 800 robots and use cases across…

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171 - How this Founder Navigates Ownership - Chris Sacchinelli

Chris is the founder of Bootstrap AI, a platform helping founders measure ownership risk, strengthen equity durability, and improve exit readiness. He is the author of two books, Unwinnable and Exit with Ownership , hosts the Bootstrapping to Billions podcast, and publishes the Simple Profits newsletter. A serial entrepreneur since the age of nine, Chris has built and exited multiple businesses,…

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170 - How Is Data Analytics Shaping the Future of Crypto and DeFi - Mattheus Veloso Dias

Matt is a data and analytics leader with a rare blend of traditional finance and crypto expertise. After five years at Nubank, one of Latin America's largest digital banks, where he built analytics infrastructure at scale, he now leads data at Ether.fi, a major DeFi protocol based in the Cayman Islands. His journey spans continents, industries, and technologies, from building AI and NLP systems…

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169 - When Passion Meets Conservation - Megan Brief

Megan Brief is a wildlife photographer, nature writer, and passionate conservation storyteller who documents human-wildlife conflict and coexistence across the globe. She works as a Digital Marketing Coordinator for Natural Habitat Adventures, an ecotourism company partnered with World Wildlife Fund, where she also leads marketing for their Women's Journeys program. Megan holds a master's degree…

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168 - Founders Lessons on AI Integration - Sayantika Banik

Sayantika Banik is the founder of Data Journey HQ, an evolving ecosystem that connects open source innovation with design-first AI. With a background shaped by a nomadic military family upbringing, Saya has channeled a lifelong love of exploration into building tools that empower solo and non-technical founders to create secure cost-aware, and production-ready AI systems. A GitHub Secure Open…

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167 - The Founder Behind Dolly - Angela Scott

Angela is an experienced executive, founder of TC BioPharma, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was part of the pioneering PPL Therapeutics team that cloned Dolly the sheep and went on to serve as Operations Director at Angel Biotechnology. With a career spanning decades across cutting-edge biological research, GMP manufacturing, and clinical trials, Angela has been instrumental in…

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